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Include books by the same authorLondon: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 824 pages
"London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.". "Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch · 1,161 pages
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the fir
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · 382 pages
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations b
Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore · 672 pages
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and
The New Penguin History of The World
J.M. Roberts · 1,248 pages
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991
Eric Hobsbawm · 627 pages
In this masterful and highly accessible study of our times, one of the world's leading historians sheds exciting new light on our understanding of the twentieth century, with incisive assessments of events that have marked this turbulent period. Eric Hobsbawm, whose own life spans this century, deftly examines from both personal and scholarly perspectives such events as the great economic depre
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
William Manchester · 896 pages
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
John Julius Norwich · 416 pages
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Edward Gibbon · 691 pages
Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a compass equivalent to a long novel. Casual readers now have access to the full swe
A History of the Crusades, Vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Steven Runciman · 394 pages
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East
David Fromkin · 635 pages
Traces Great Britain's influence on Middle East politics since World War I, and describes Britain's changing interests in the region.
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans · 622 pages
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the worlds most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan · 624 pages
Churchill: A Biography
Roy Jenkins · 1,020 pages
"Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins's command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narr
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Rick Atkinson · 896 pages
This book is the magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II. It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coali
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · 886 pages
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the brig
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman · 704 pages
Amazon.com Review In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Max Hastings · 799 pages
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives -- an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the f
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow · 812 pages
The Second World War
Antony Beevor · 871 pages
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us fro
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer · 1,264 pages